...A city’s number [one] priority should be to keep the city a place people want to live. At bottom this means decent public safety [police and fire, mostly...], decent transportation [roads, signals], and decent schools; at a ‘price point’ [total taxation] that the average... taxpaying citizen finds reasonable. Anything else... is basically fluff.

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City parks -- including the swimming pools and golf courses -- should be a non-essential service. But good luck getting that past the morons on our City-County Council, not to mention our Mayor who I think has forgotten the people who elected him.